Bifurcation of limit cycles in a cubic-order planar system around a nilpotent critical point (Q2627915)

The authors consider the bifurcation of limit cycles for planar cubic-order systems with an isolated nilpotent critical point. Normal form theory is applied to compute the generalized Lyapunov constants and to prove the existence of at least 9 small-amplitude limit cycles in the neighborhood of the nilpotent critical point. In addition, the method of double bifurcation of nilpotent focus is used to show that such systems can have 10 small-amplitude limit cycles near the nilpotent critical point.